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Mariae Sibillae Merian Dissertatio de generatione et metamorphosibus insectorum surinamensium : in quâ, praeter vermes & erucas surinamenses, earumque admirandam metamorphosin, plantae, flores & fructus, quibus vescuntur, & in quibus fuerunt inventae, exhibentur : his adjunguntur bufones, lacerti, serpentes, araneae, aliaque admiranda istius regionis animalcula, omnia manu ejusdem matronae in America ad vivum accuratè depicta, & nunc aeri incisa : accedit appendix transformationum piscium in ranas, & ranarum in pisces

by: Merian, Maria Sibylla, 1647-1717

Publication date: 1726

Topics: Insects, Metamorphosis, Insects -- Suriname -- Pictorial works -- Early works to 1800, Insects -- Metamorphosis -- Early works to 1800, Insectes -- Suriname -- Ouvrages illustrés -- Ouvrages avant 1800, Insectes -- Métamorphose -- Ouvrages avant 1800, Insects -- Metamorphosis, Suriname

Publisher: Hagae Comitum : Apud Petrum Gosse

Collection: biodiversity

Contributor: Library of the Netherlands Entomological Society, Naturalis Biodiversity Center

Language: Latin

Item Size: 1.1G

[10], 72 pages, 72 leaves of plates : 53 cm

Added title page in French: Dissertation sur la generation et les transformations des insectes de Surinam : dans laquelle on traite des vers et des chenilles de Surinam, des plantes, fleurs, & fruits dont ils vivent & dans lesquels on les a trouvez : on y parle aussi des crapaux, lezards, serpens, aragnees, & autres petits animaux du même païs, peints surs les lieux d'après nature, & depuis gravez avec beaucoup de soin : on y a joint un traité des changemens des poissons en grenouilles & des grenouilles en poissons / par Marie Sibille Merian

French translation by Jean Rousset de Missy

Some engravings signed "P Sluyter sculp." ; some signed "J Mulder sculp."; engraved title vignette signed "D. Coster inv. et ft."; engraved armorial head-piece signed "T. Otten schulp."

Originally published in Latin and Dutch, Amsterdam, 1705, under title: Metamorphosis insectorum surinamensium

Signatures: pi² *² **² A-S²

Title pages printed in red and black, with engraved vignette (printer's device)

Addeddate: 2023-05-31 14:19:21

Associated-names: Rousset de Missy, Jean, 1686-1762, translator; Coster, David, -1752, engraver; Otten, T., 18th century, engraver; Sluiter, Pieter, 1675-approximately 1713, engraver; Mulder, Joseph, 1659 or 1660- engraver; Gosse, Pierre, 1676?-1755, printer